In a world that punishes connection, falling in love is the most dangerous act of all.

What am I?

That's the question Riel has been running from his entire life.

T.A.D.-the corporation that became a totalitarian regime-dissolved Europe's nations, erased its borders, and engineered a replacement. New Europa. One language. One order. Every mind connected to SOLACE, an artificial superintelligence that believes, with quiet certainty, it is keeping humanity safe.

In Echelon, obedience has never felt so much like choice.

Nineteen years old. Never Integrated. In a world where that should be impossible, he has survived by staying invisible. No questions. No answers. No one to trust. It was working.

Until the visions started. Impossible memories. Someone else's past living inside his head, growing louder.

He used to know where he ended. He's not sure anymore.

Then rebels find him. And Elias, who looks at him like he's already been seen. Staying hidden is no longer possible. Not from them. Not from Elias.

Not from himself.

And Riel has begun to remember.

Symbiosis: Salvation is Book 1 of The Symbiosis Series. A character-driven dystopian sci-fi for fans of slow-burn MM romance, existential dread, and worlds where the most radical act is knowing your own mind.